For the Salzburg-born painter Her­mann Krems­may­er, who lives in Vien­na, col­ors are ini­tial­ly pure joy of exis­tence. Krems­may­er became known for his intense, large-scale col­or com­po­si­tions on can­vas. Often paint­ed wet-on-wet, the col­ors take a bath togeth­er. For the artist, the world of paint­ing con­sists of three ingre­di­ents — col­or, light and space. He com­bines the wealth of free­dom of mod­ern paint­ing with the tra­di­tion of depict­ing light and its shad­ows. The painter con­structs spaces as worlds of thought, as sen­su­al emo­tion­al spaces, as ide­al coun­ter­parts for fan­tasies. “It is an ele­gant break­through that Krems­may­er achieves: a few brush­strokes are all he needs on a ground that has been laid out with the utmost care in terms of mate­r­i­al and col­or, and as if through an unex­pect­ed­ly opened win­dow, our gaze falls back a few mil­len­nia in the his­to­ry of the genre.” (K.M. Gauss)
The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures new works by the artist, in which he invites view­ers to immerse them­selves in these fan­tas­tic worlds of color.